Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became the Gertrude Stein of his instrument is still a matter for conjecture. Historians tell us that he didn't become familiar with the saxophone until rather late in life, at seventeen to be exact, and perhaps as a result he never really became reconciled to it. Whatever the reason, as in the case of other commodities of a rank or distasteful appearance like Limburger cheese, pickled snails, or Italian grappa, his music has a strong and peculiar attraction for a certain select few who accept nothing else as a substitute...
What is promised from this new science is still nebulous though the inherent possibilities have excited the imaginations of scientists throughout the world. Weather prediction, for which tremendous complex formulae already exist, may be reduced to an exact process instead of the present hit and miss system; economists and anthropologists have reams of statistical data which may with mechanical aid be put to practical use; engineers, particularly aeronautical and metallurgical, may be able to come out of the laborious testing laboratory and try their designs quickly and inexpensively through machine aided mathematics. Automatic computation cuts horizontally across all fields...
Japanese seismologists were still mulling over the subsea earthquake which shook and wave-smashed their islands a fortnight ago. At Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, Dr. Takahiro Hagiwara, one of Japan's leading seismologists, could not yet put his finger on the exact "epicenter," the place where the earth's crust had suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have...
...will be necessary first to review the facts, since the Crimson misrepresented them: The organization is the Catholic Club. The postcard sent out by them did not remind anyone to vote for any candidate. It said, (and I quote the exact words used) "The Catholic Club nominee is James Sullivan. We urge you to vote." That was all. The writer of the postcard was obviously very careful to avoid saying that the members of the Club should vote for "their" nominee; he merely urged them to vote, and certainly no, one can take exception to that...
...this civilization had accomplished marvels. It had an exact chronology, a "more accurate knowledge of astronomy" than that of Egypt under the Ptolemies, an arithmetical system involving the concept of zero, a complex hieroglyphic writing (much of which is still undeciphered), highly accomplished arts & crafts. Yet the Maya were aboriginal people-without metal tools of any kind, without beasts of burden, without even a wheel...